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Have they actually proven this is a good idea, or is this a “so preoccupied with whether or not they could” scenario?
It’s businesses “throwing AI into stuff”, so I’m going to say it’s a safe bet it’s the latter.
Ask me anything.
I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks
Have they actually proven this is a good idea, or is this a “so preoccupied with whether or not they could” scenario?
It’s businesses “throwing AI into stuff”, so I’m going to say it’s a safe bet it’s the latter.
Yep, 100%.
In college, I worked at a call center for one of the worst Banks of America (oops, meant banks in America 😉). Can confirm that, and I dealt with a LOT of angry customers.
This is giving me Black Mirror vibes. Like when that lady’s consciousness got put into a teddy bear, and she only had two ways to express herself:
I get that you shouldn’t go off on customer service reps (the reason you’re angry is never their fault), but filtering out the emotion/intonation in your voice is a bridge too far.
If you don’t get any other answers:
I run OpenWRT on my router (x86 hardware), and have Adguard Home and Wireguard installed on it.
AdGuard has its own webUI, and Wireguard peers can be managed through LuCI in OpenWRT. It also supports OpenVPN as well as other VPN types.
So you could run a VM with OpenWRT and get all that.
Does nextcloud deck have recurring tasks yet? I didn’t think it did.
Just checked, and no, it doesn’t appear to.
Most of my devices I was able to flash it right to it (or TFTP boot the installer and go through the steps via console cable). On x86, you just flash a boot image with dd
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The hardest “install” was to a batch of enterprise APs where I had to attach a programming clip to its flash chip and use a Rapberry Pi to burn the image. After that, though, I could update them normally
If you’ve reached this point in your OpenWRT install, turn around. lol. I only kept going because I thought I was bidding $12 on a single Aruba AP-105 and ended up getting a lot of 20 (for $12), so I had to figure out some use for them.
Usage is pretty straightforward through the web UI (LuCI). For some more complex configs, it’s sometimes challenging to figure out the UCI syntax to configure (when I was playing around with B.A.T.M.A.N for example) but otherwise is pretty nice.
I read on OPNSense guide it needs 2gb ram
Good to know, thanks. I haven’t deployed it in years (have been using OpenWRT which will run on a potato). Getting ready to build a new router/firewall myself, but I don’t think the 2 GB is gonna be a problem. Have been debating sticking with OpenWRT or going to OPNSense.
Aside from being a little power hungry, then that should do the job. opnSense or OpenWRT should run really well.
Yeah, it would make a beefy router for sure. Wouldn’t be very power-efficient, but would handle the job well.
Outside of that, you’re most limited by the 512 MB RAM. Adding a larger drive would be an easy/cheap upgrade (though it may be SATA II speeds or possibly SATA I).
If you use OpenWRT for your router OS, you can also install AdGuard and get a bit more use out of it.
If you can add an HBA for better SATA speeds, and have room in the case, it might make a halfway decent NAS (or backup NAS).
Worst case, they’re saving it to an encrypted blob storage, calling that encrypted, and hiding deep in the ToS that you actually agreed to that
And then it’s discovered that bucket was accidentally set to public for over 8 months. Oopsie daisy! But you can’t sue us because also deep in the ToS was a forced arbitration clause.
Also, if you don’t agree to the whole ToS, you can’t use the computer you just paid for.
…yeah.
I had that thought after I replied when I realized that most of the reputable search crawlers will publish the IPs/ranges they use in addition to the UA. The disreputable ones (cough Bytedance cough Xiaomi cough) will just spoof Chrome on Windows 10 and flood you with requests from AWS datacenters in Shanghai or Singapore.
That said, I may still continue looking into working with one of the actual self-hosted search engines (vs meta search) and see how well that works.
s it because you expect other search engines to follow suit until there are no search engines anymore, only hallucination machines?
Basically, yeah.
I fear that as well. I use Searx-NG at home, so am expecting that to start dying a death of a thousand cuts soon.
Was thinking about standing up (or contributing to) either YaCY or Stract, but you made a good point about the bot allowances for the Googlebot et al crawler UAs. Wonder how frowned upon it would be to spoof the crawler UA in a self-hosted one?
Same. I don’t mind it as an option if that’s what some people want, but stop “enhancing” the default experience with it and shoving it down my throat. No lo quiero.
Sigh. AI has basically added a rocket booster to the enshittification train.
Hopefully this doesn’t impact DDG.
Try this docker-compose file: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/docker/docker-compose.yml
Here’s the docs for pict-rs: https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/src/branch/main/pict-rs.toml
Everything in the config file has an env var you can set. The most important one is the PICTRS__SERVER__API_KEY
To add on to this answer:
If they’re blocking Wireguard/OpenVPN at the protocol level, there may not be anything you can do (running on a different port, etc).
If HTTPS works, between a cloud VPS and your home connection, you might be able to setup Nginx + VPN-WS on your cloud host to make a websocket-based VPN.
https://github.com/unbit/vpn-ws
I haven’t tried this, but it looks solid enough. Just make sure you configure Nginx correctly for authentication since it doesn’t do that on its own (intentionally since most web servers already have a solid authentication framework / plugin system).
You may also try SSH port forwarding. Basically your home device maintains a persistent connection to the cloud server over SSH and forwards one or more ports (its SSH, for example) over that, and the cloud server makes that available.
I’ve followed that for a while :) Saw it on Hack a Day early in its development and thought it was one of the coolest ports I’ve ever seen. Sadly, I think he got D&D’d. Best I recall, I think it was unlicensed use of the N64 SDK or something like that.
Can’t speak for OP, but the Vault software itself is fine. It’s their recent change in licensing that has a lot of people upset and looking for alternatives:
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license